Rethinking Washington’s Counterterrorism Strategy

What are alternative ways to combat global terrorism other than the post-9/11 strategy of perpetual war?

After the September 11th attacks, the United States quickly devised a strategy to combat global terrorism that still largely is playing out today. America has built an extensive counterterrorism apparatus almost as powerful as the former Cold War military complex, and our military and paramilitary intelligence agencies continue to pursue terrorist groups in an ever-expanding range of territory. In northern and central Africa, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, overt and covert military action, air strikes, drone attacks, assassinations, detentions, and interrogation are increasingly the face of American foreign policy.